Yay, Bonus Monies

Well, after doing some hardcore math and looking at a bank statement, I found out that I had about $750 I didn't know about. I was pretty ecstatic to find it out and I found the best way to Squander my moolah: I preordered game through Gamestop's website. Normally, I despise Gamestop and hate to give them my business, but their online services have never once failed me.

If you're curious, I ordered Scribblenauts, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, Demon's Souls and Silent Hill Shattered Memories. Scribblenauts has been praised to death, so I'm not going to talk about it... yet.

Persona is a very fun game, I played about 5 hours of a borrowed copy earlier this year and dropped it immediately when I found out the enhanced version was going to be localized. What I enjoyed about it was how cerebral the presentation is (note I didn't say the plot) and the eerie music. I was pretty excited when I found out the my music idol Shoji Meguro was going to be doing the soundtrack, but when I heard the music, I was saddened a little bit. His new music is very good aswell as his remixes, but I don't think they fit the general tone of the game very well. Regardless, the game should be very good and now that they've updated the localization, the plot will actually make sense and they won't mistake the word 'your' for 'you're'.

Demon's Souls was a game that I've heard numerous praises for since it was released in Japan late last year. This thing was pretty much THE import game for the Playstation 3. When it comes to how the game actually plays, it looks like it's an absolutely brutal mix of Monster Hunter and Zelda. I'm pretty psyched for it.

Lastly, Silent Hill. What I've liked about Silent Hill was that it's focus in horror wasn't based on surprises as much as it was on unsettlement. There weren't many trigger scares and the creepy factor was almost based on sexuality mixed with psychological deterioration. My only gripe in ALL of them was the combat, looks like Konami listened to me. There is to be no combat in the game at all and the focus of enemy encounters is to run like hell or hide and hope you don't get caught. That seems a whole lot scarier than fighting a skinned dog with a knife.